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Couples
http://www.holdmetight.com/
http://ow.ly/i/5i2Y0 - Things we can learn from a dog
Neuroscience
http://drdansiegel.com/
http://www.drjoecarver.com/clients/49355/File/Chemical%20Imbalance.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcrGlUHlu4M&
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kH-BO1rJXbQ#! - Teenage brain
Talk Time Featuring Dr. Dan Siegel youtube - teenage brain
Kids in the House.com
http://Turn Passing Experiences into Inner Strength
Shame
http://www.healingshame.com/
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=Aqv_HKfbOX.AW9i4japEcXabvZx4?p=reid+wilson+and+jeff+schwartz+trea
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/beyond-the-doubt/200908/what-if/comments
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0lPuN03b40
http://www.ocfoundation.org/
Mindfulness Stops Negativity From Sticking To You Like Gluehuffingtonpost.com
Anxiety
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FWjEzJ5CL4
http://gad.about.com/od/selfhelp/a/sixways.htm
http://tedxtalks.ted.com/video/The-Space-Between-Self-Esteem-a;search%3ANeff
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/unified-theory-happiness
Depression
http://psychology.about.com/od/lindex/f/earned-helplessness.htm
Teaching the Brain to be StrongThe Importance of Installing Positive Traits
Rick Hanson •April 17, 2014• Found in Psychotherapy Networker
People come to a therapist because they want something to change: they want to feel or act differently, understand themselves or others better, or relate to things in a more spacious and accepting way. These changes of mind, of course, require changes of brain. Psychotherapists are in the business of changing the brain for the better, which means building up the neural substrates of inner strengths, including character virtues, executive functions, perspectives, attitudes, positive emotions, and capabilities. These positive traits are the resources we draw upon to soothe ourselves, lower anxiety, feel loved and worthy, be appropriately assertive, contribute to others, and choose the higher road over the lower one. In many ways, the essence of therapy is developing inner strengths, which come from positive states.
It’s easy to dismiss positive experiences as lightweight, new age, pie-in-the-sky fluff—mere “positive thinking.” But these good moments are actually the building blocks of self-regulation, secure attachment, self-esteem, and positive mood. We grow inner strengths by having experiences of them. If you want to be more mindful, have more experiences of mindfulness; if you want to be more confident, have more experiences of being appreciated by others.
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But merely having positive experiences isn’t enough: they must be installed in neural structures for any lasting value. Otherwise, they’re momentarily pleasant—better than a stick in the eye—but with little or no enduring benefit. A positive experience must be held in short-term buffers long enough to start getting encoded in long-term storage. “Long enough” depends on the experience and the person, but it’s at least a few seconds and usually longer of staying with and really registering a beneficial thought, perception, emotion, desire, or action. Without this sustained immersion in a positive mental state, its conversion rate to positive neural trait will likely be low at best.
It wasn’t until I began regarding the installation phase of acquiring good traits as the crux of effective therapy (and other paths of healing and growth), that I began to see more deep-seated and long-lasting changes in my clients. Activating useful thoughts and feelings is certainly good, but installing them in neural structures is even better, and learning how to do this has made me a better therapist.
Vagus Nerve
http:////www.mindbodygreen.com/0-4986/What-You-Need-to-Know-About-the-Vagus-Nerve.html
https://sites.google.com/site/stanleyguansite/health/health-tips/breathe-deeply-to-activate-vagus-nerve
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/post-traumatic-stress-disorder
Family systems
http://www.parents.com/baby/development/social/birth-order-and-personality/
http://www.genopro.com/genogram/family-systems-theory/
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Grief
http://www.pbs.org/thisemotionallife/topic/grief-and-loss
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/04/opinion/sunday/the-trauma-of-being-alive.html
Attachment Theory
http://blogs.psychcentral.com/relationships/2013/08/the-impact-of-childhood-attachment-styles-on-couple-relationships-2-of-2/
http://www.simplypsychology.org/attachment.html
Addictions
http://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Recovery-Spiritual-Healing-Addiction/dp/0471442615/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1376857730&sr=1-1-fkmr1&keywords=ron+mindful+recovery
http://www.minnesotarecovery.info/Treatment2.htm#Treatment%20Centers%20-%20Twin%20Cities
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_effects_of_alcohol
http://www.mindfulness-solution.com
https://quitza.com/forum - self help group for smoking cessation
Self Healing Breath and Meditation
http://www.ehow.com/how_2276767_do-foursquare-breathing.html
http://www.calm.com/
An Open, Spacious Awareness For An Open, Spacious Lifehuffingtonpost.com